One of great new features of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 is it's ability to data reference Offset and Curb Return Alignment Features. I've already done some webinar training on this topic featuring a few things you can do with referenced Offset Alignments.
The new ability to keep your horizontal and vertical control…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 29, 2011
Tags alignment, group labels, annotation, Style, Label Style, Sets, linetype
For reasons AutoCAD Civil 3D Beta and More, I've been playing around a lot with Offset Alignments and Widenings. Indeed I am somewhat torturing the poooor Autodesk Beta QA people with a some baffling array of "challenges". Good news. They are being responsive and that means 2012 will be better :)
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Last time I talked about the idea that you can build in simple Section Line Groups into your templates and your project plans. The idea there is to use placeholder Features to get both More consistency and save yourself time with a little up front planning and work.
The way that Civil 3D produces Pages of Sections is a publishing task. There is only so much setup work you can do beforehand…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 20, 2011
Tags sample lines, alignment, section, corridor, pages of sections, publiish, sample line group
Pages of Sections in AutoCAD Civil 3D employ many Styles and have many properties. All that complexity makes getting exactly what you want somewhat of a challenge.
This is just one Page of Sections. Obviously a long alignment and its large Corridor with many Sections makes for potentially many pages. That produces large drawings where changes and modifications to the Section details can…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 14, 2011
Tags section, pages of sections, alignment, publiish, data reference, DREF, dynamic model